"But I don't know what to nomi—" Let me stop you there. We built an entire resource for this! It's free and operates as both a rec list and a second brain for remembering stuff you read/watched/played a year ago. #HugoAwards

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"But I don't know what to nomi—" Let me stop you there. We built an entire resource for this! It's free and operates as both a rec list and a second brain for remembering stuff you read/watched/played a year ago. #HugoAwards

You don't have to have read everything out there to nominate - no one could. But you certainly had some things (including novels, but also poems, fan art, movies, video games, podcasts, and more!) that you loved in 2025. Go forth and nominate!

It’s time to make a plan to vote! Maybe log in this weekend and drop a few things in each category you’re voting in just to get the momentum going. Set a few calendar reminders. Nag a fellow WSFS pal!

the following post says "Last year, there were a total of 1,338 nominating ballots cast" which means this year is on track to have MORE NOMINATORS this is good

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Site's been down for a couple of days due to a maintenance snafu but it's back up and we're about 50% of the way to the awards funding goal! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

Invasive parasite that spreads its seed into other things that it then grotesquely puppets with the goal of sucking the planet dry and then repeating the cycle? Which is then spread willingly by irresponsible rich folk who believe it to be the next frontier of human evolution? Yup, checks out.

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

I gathered some thoughts about Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman, which everyone who loves literary science fiction, trans people, and artists should read. 🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2026/03/10/n...

A small selection of upcoming books I'm excited to read: bysinginglight.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/u...

After a month of buildup, may I present... The Queersar not an award 2020! 10 (+1) great queer SFF novels. V good year for queer SFF; I found it *really* hard to narrow down to 10. But happy with what's on here & more convinced there *is* a gap in the award landscape for books like these.

Finding a cool new book newsletter, but it’s hosted on Substack. 🥲

listen i love ao3 as much as the next guy but ive seen people quit fic writing over the past few years because people comment and engage with authors way less, and then everyone still freaks out when ao3 goes down- if a fic is irreplaceable to u, let the author know!

BookSky: query from a friend in publishing: What are some great small presses that do poetry? Thanks! 📚💙

This thread is an attack on me, specifically. ONE????? This is a type of torture I’m pretty sure.

New Intergalactic Mixtape!

Finished a reread of Ghostdrift by Suzanne Palmer and I’m still convinced we were utterly robbed of at least one more book by the vagaries of publishing. 🥲

Hopecore. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

good morning! new from me in @strangehorizons.bsky.social today, a review of Alexandra McCollum's Into the Midnight Wood, in which I vent some frustrations with the current state of the cozy romcom fantasy novel (I liked this one tho!)

This is an excellent review. Who amongst the ranks of reviewers has not sometimes thought "Is this a good book? I don’t know. What even does it mean to be good?" Few of us, however, have the courage to put this thought in a review, and for this (and many other delights) I salute Jenny and SH.

Who's a big fan of @readingtheend.bsky.social? The whole internet, that's who. Really pleased Jenny is back at SH with this review on a curious romcomantasy (it's her term, don't @ me). "Is this a good book? I don’t know. What even does it mean to be good?"

At the bottom of the Substack settings page, under "Danger Zone," you can turn off all subscriptions at once. Apologies to all my friends on Substack. I'd gritted my teeth and supported you because I love your work. But Substack's partnership with Polymarket is the last straw for me.

If you’ve ever loved and lost cat, this newsletter is full of feelings.

The fact that this sort of thing isn’t the norm in every fantasy novel drives me absolutely batty.

omg. We're soooooooo close! Only $752 to go! Onlyhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/androidpress/the-cookout-a-speculative-fiction-anthology

7 years ago I just put out the Taco Bell Quarterly in a word document! I made it for free and put it out and no one gave me any push or permission, and if I failed, OH WELL, it's not like it was even real!

Hey all, if you are the kind of person who goes to or pays attention to or even, yes, complains about Worldcon (because you care about the state of speculative fiction & its communities), I *implore you* to take ten minutes and submit a program item or two before the deadline. Thread! 1/13

Never before have I been so thrilled I found the complete Star Trek: TNG collection on DVD at a library book sale.

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People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

Fellow fans of The Witch Roads, you can WRITE BOOKS IN and I think we should. 👀

As someone who's been an avid women's hockey fan since the 24-25 PWHL season, the last few days have been...a lot. Don't get me wrong, the women's game is not perfectly progressive* and watching them is not a solution to misogyny. * See: Britta Curl-Salemme

Another Hugo nomination-time thread! And in this one, I'll be talking about novellas. (this thread will probably go long, sorry-not-sorry)

keep seeing people talking about Hugo and Nebula nominations which means it is my professional duty to remind you that nominations for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize open on SUNDAY

The NY Mag cover story IS leagues better than any other article that has tried to reckon with the Heated Rivalry phenomenon and what it’s all born out of, but can journos collectively agree to stop linking to fanfiction? Maybe???

1. BS apology from the host 2. Zero apology from BAFTAS 2a. No editing of the broadcast 3. N-word hurled more than once 4. No acts of care or concern towards MBJ or Delroy, Black people 5. Zero accommodations for safety 6. All during BHM The disrespect is in outer space at this point.

The Core. Ridiculous premise. Ridiculous science. Incredible character work by actors who were clearly having a blast.

I believe in you, little guy

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Honored to be included on the 2026 @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social Recommended Reading for Fanzine! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/02/2026...

shout-out for @emmiechristie33.bsky.social (and me!) in @renay.bsky.social's latest Intergalactic Mixtape. follow along with Emmie's short fiction review series here: www.emmiechristie.com/short-fictio...

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Grotesque. Get off Substack if you can. Let them know how you feel about this, at the very least!

Last day to vote in the BSFA for things to make the shortlist. You could vote for me, or for many other cool things instead/as well, I'm not the boss of you.

With the caveat that there are much more important things in need of financial support in our fucked up times, the support page for the Ignytes is back up for the 2026 cycle. ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

Happy Presidents' Day

It’s Saturday and you deserve a treat so sit back with a cuppa and catch up on this week’s Wombling Along gathering reviews and more I saw online this week www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/2/...

I’ve now reminded myself why I stopped following ice skating: I hate when they fall and I hate all the interviewers who are a bunch of butt munching busybodies with a fetish for humiliating people in public.